Competition In Theme Parks

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Behind the Scenes: Theme Parks 2009 COMPETITION SCENARIOS Get ready to experience engineering! TEAMS 2009 is taking students behind the scenes and showing them the engineering involved in designing, building and running America's theme parks! Every year millions of people get their adrenaline pumping by visiting one of the hundreds of amusement parks that’s synonymous with summer fun! In the United States alone, there are an estimated 300 million amusement park visitors tallying a total of 3 billion rides per year. Whether visiting Bush Gardens in Tampa Florida, Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio, Silver Dollar City in Branson Missouri, any of the Six Flags or Disney Parks, entire families are having countless hours of entertainment. So who is responsible for making all of this fun and entertainment happen? Engineers! It takes engineers with all different backgrounds from a wide range of disciplines to create the amusement parks we enjoy. While all the work of these engineers takes place behind the scenes, their ultimate goal is to create exciting rides and activities while keeping the safety of all visitors and guests at the top of their priority list. Get active and explore how it all happens! JETS provides you with the following eight competition scenarios to offer a preliminary overview of the question content that will be posed during the 2009 TEAMS Competition. Scenarios may be edited and expanded upon in the questions of the actual competition; however the overall content will remain. Team members are encouraged to get started by researching the information contained in the scenarios including any unfamiliar terms in preparation for the competition. A short list of related links is also provided at the end of each scenario and contains information for more exploration. Needless to say, these links should not be considered all inclusive and team members/coaches are

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